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CULT

/kʌlt/4 letters

Definition of CULT

noun

The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CULT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 28 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
9
First board
120
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

CULT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CULT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CLTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CULT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.

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